Temple and Family History Resources
Help members to unite their families for eternity.
Resources for Leaders
Understand your role, and access helpful tools.
Key Principles
General Handbook
Guidelines to help ward leaders as they carry out temple and family history efforts
Start with the Savior
Focusing on the Savior while inviting members to participate
Use Ordinances Ready
A simple tool that searches Family Tree for relatives who have not yet received temple blessings
Organizing Temple and Family History Work
Overview
How leaders can work together to engage members
Coordination Meeting
Effective ward temple and family history coordination meetings
Ward Council Meeting
How the ward council can support temple and family history efforts
Counseling Together
How Relief Society and elders quorum presidencies can counsel together to unite families for eternity
Family History Activity Report
A report of temple and family history engagement in your ward or stake (This report is available only to members with certain callings.)
Family Name Assist
Accessing Family Name Assist
Various ways to access Family Name Assist, depending on your calling
Activities and Events
Branded Materials
Branded FamilySearch materials you can purchase to enhance local events and displays
Family Discovery Day
Resources for hosting a Family Discovery Day to help guests discover, gather, and connect their families
Design Your Family Tree
Templates to create a beautiful family tree, adding what you know along the way
FamilySearch and America250
FamilySearch resources for the 250th anniversary of the United States
RootsTech Watch Party
RootsTech watch party resources to engage members and friends of the Church
Training and More
Annual Leadership Training
Principles and teachings from Church leaders to guide you in your responsibility
FamilySearch Help and Learning
Training resources to help consultants, center coordinators, and more
Video Tutorial
A video showing how to use Ordinances Ready
Guide for Children Turning 12
Resources to help children turning 12 have a good experience at the temple baptistry
Inspirational Videos
The videos can be used for trainings, lessons, and more.
Blessings and Belonging
Promised Blessings, Part 1
Modern apostles have promised many powerful blessings to those who participate in family history and temple service.
Promised Blessings, Part 2
Temple and family history work can provide you with purpose and strength.
Connect. Belong.
When we discover who we are in relation to each other, we think differently, act differently, and treat other people differently.
This Is Family History
You are living your family history every day. The moments that are happening in your life make up your story, which is the family history of future generations.
One Work of Salvation and Exaltation
Missionary and Family History Work
Missionaries in Texas find success by combining missionary work with temple and family history work.
Finding with Family History
Focusing on family history as part of the work of salvation changed the Houston Texas mission.
Strengthening New Members
Follow the journey of a family that joined the Church and then found joy as they discovered ancestral names and performed temple ordinances for them.
Retaining Converts
Watch missionaries teach Zayna Chubbs, help her find family names, add them to FamilySearch.org, print out ordinance cards, and perform proxy ordinances in the temple.
Family History for Reactivation
When Brother Aguilar returned from his mission, he vowed to stay strong. Family history helped him find the way.
Ministering to New Members
See how attending the temple strengthens new members.
For Children and Youth
2025 Global Youth Activity
Watch a virtual broadcast especially for 11- and 12-year-olds who are new to temple attendance.
2022 Friend to Friend: Temples are the House of the Lord
View a virtual broadcast for children, featuring messages about temple covenants from Elder Gary E. Stevenson and members of the Primary General Presidency.